BBC political editor Nick Robinson has a fascinating documentary on BBC2 at 9pm tonight - I strongly encourage you to watch it. I suspect that many of Cornwall's Liberal Democrats will conclude that their leader, Nick Clegg, does not emerge with much credit.
Nick Robinson charts the five days which followed the general election stalemate in May, when Clegg was able to negotiate simultaneously with David Cameron and Gordon Brown.
According to the documentary, when Clegg talked to Cameron, he exaggerated the offers on voting reform he claimed to have received from Brown. And when he spoke to his own party, including his backbench MPs, Clegg exaggerated the concerns of the Bank of England about the need for immediate, deep cuts in public spending (reversing his party's economic policy in the process.)
It's the sort of thing that gets politics and the pursuit of power a bad name. Love it.
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